Riding Instructors - do you think some of your pupils are mad ?

[Gingerwitch]

Just wondered - i have Mr Schoolmaster he is getting on now in the body but not the brain.

I dont care I love him and every time i ride him I learn more from him than any other animal you could ride. Yep I am sometimes scared of him, and today when my RI was making me canter him with his head stretched down ..... almost on the end of the buckle and just feeling him at the end of the reins...... I felt sick as she said "ask for canter" in one of those voices that had already told MR S what he was doing I then proceeded to squeal with delight, had a grin that showed my two rows of teeth and then gave him a huge hug when we went into the most undignified halt - just because MR S knew I would fall off with excitement if he did not stop.

i then said, thank you a thousand times to the horse and the RI, said he has done enough and gave him a polo, and came home as happy as happy could be.

We had only probably had 20 mins of the 45 min lesson - but you know what I had done enough, my pony had done more than enough and I was well happy. Only person looking slightly dazed and confused was my lovelly RI - and I just thought - she honestly thinks I am mad !

 

[PoniesRock]

I'm sure that anyone who teaches me and my friend thinks were off our rockers! We both have a tendency to scream and squeal (especially when were jumping!) and laugh alot....

Prob doesn't really help by the fact that we unload our ponies and they tend to be dressed in pink and purple and we colour co-ordinate with them! And if anyone hears us out hacking (tbh I think most of the country can hear us out hacking Singing and giggling....) they would most likely come to the same conclusion that we are off our rockers!! But we have fun and thats what matters!!

 

[JFTDWS]

I once told a lovely young RI I loved him because he said something I particularly agreed with He definitely thinks I'm mad. Fled the county after my first lesson, too

 

[**Vanner**]

My ri thinks both i and my boy are nuts but that's why she loves teaching us
And the fact that we'll have a go at anything even if we don't get it right!